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...states, the upper house of parliament normally can be counted on to approve new legislation without raising a fuss. All that changed in 1999, however, when the opposition Christian Democrats won a string of state elections, giving them a "blocking minority" in the Bundesrat. Suddenly Chancellor Gerhard Schröder discovered that in order to get laws like his tax reform package through the upper house, he had to wheel and deal or risk certain defeat...
...farmer who resigned amid the previous food crisis, the one over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease. Künast, 45, is a lawyer with no experience in agriculture. In appointing her to head a new ministry that combines consumer protection, food and farming, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder declared, "The German farming association has to accept that its influence is going to be shaved away." Künast made the same point to parliament, saying the bse crisis "marks the end of old-fashioned agriculture." Instead, she wants to increase organic farming...
...changing Germany's complex system of meat labeling into just two categories: organically grown food and products that meet minimum-quality levels. A poll taken after she had been in the job just one month showed her to be the third-most popular politician in Germany after Schröder and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer...
...Institute of German Industry in Cologne says the proposed changes-expected to be approved by the lower house of parliament by August-will boost the amount companies spend on councils by 26%, to nearly $7 billion a year. UPS executive Gerd Schr?der says the move could hurt Germany's chances of attracting foreign investment. "No one in the U.S. understands how the country that already has the highest degree of co-determination in the world wants to increase that even more...
...develop trust with your works councils, they will work with you," says Jürgen R?der, director of U.S. automaker Ford's human resources in Germany. "When I tell my American counterparts how we were able to peacefully reduce wages on 40,000 workers a few years ago because they understood our dilemma, I get disbelief...